On Monday, Bluesky announced three updates to reinforce notifications, permitting customers to personalize their expertise whereas decluttering their notification middle and decreasing pointless alerts.
The updates embody the flexibility to obtain exercise notifications for particular accounts, in addition to choices to regulate notification preferences to manage which alerts you obtain. As an illustration, customers can select to be notified solely when sure accounts reply to them.
Bluesky customers can now navigate to Settings after which Notifications to customise alerts for numerous interactions, together with new followers, likes, replies, mentions, quotes, and reposts. There’s additionally an “Every thing Else” choice, which covers normal notifications, comparable to when somebody joins by a Starter Pack or verification alerts.
Every choice will be custom-made to use solely to accounts they observe or to everybody, and can be disabled completely.
Moreover, customers can now obtain notifications when somebody likes their repost or reposts content material they’ve shared. This function is very helpful for individuals who primarily reshare posts fairly than create unique content material, serving to them really feel extra engaged.
Bluesky stated the earlier “precedence notifications” function has been changed. That function allowed customers to filter notifications to obtain updates solely from accounts they observe. To realize the identical outcome, customers should change reply, point out, and quote notifications to “individuals you observe solely.”
The brand new exercise notification function resembles these discovered on platforms like X and Threads, permitting customers to decide on to be notified every time an account posts one thing new or replies to a submit.
To allow this function, go to a profile and faucet the bell icon subsequent to the observe button to obtain notifications each time that account publishes a brand new submit. There’s additionally a separate choice for reply notifications.
Customers can handle their exercise notifications in settings, eradicating accounts from their record in the event that they not want to obtain updates.
One caveat is that accounts can disable this function completely, which means customers might not be capable of activate exercise notifications for each account they want to observe. Account homeowners may allow exercise notifications for under the individuals they observe.